What this dad does with toast will make you smile

A dad in the UK has been slowly stealing the internet's heart over the last year with his unique gift for creating toast sculptures. It might sound like an odd choice of artistic medium, but the amount of joy Adam Perry is delivering daily simply with two slices of bread is heart-warming, and here's why.
Perry is the father of two girls aged 9 and 11. The youngest suffers from severe allergies, with the reactions in some instances so severe that she's now frightened to eat anything other than trusted white bread and a special sunflower oil spread. Every day Perry makes breakfast for his two girls while their mum, Helen, gets them ready for school. Tired of seeing the lack of joy in his daughter's breakfast, Perry decided to do something about it – taking the morning toast ritual and turning it into a daily work of art.

"I started to feel really sorry for her that her breakfast was so boring every day," Perry told 9Kitchen by email. "The same old two slices of white toast. So I started playing with toast to get her excited about her breakfast again and to make both the girls laugh when they came down to eat."

It's here that he unleashed his prodigious skill for toast sculpture, turning two slices of toast into everything from rocking horses to the Colosseum. Check out the adorable video above for a comprehensive cross section of his clever works, but let it be noted that our personal favourite at 9Kitchen is the heart-meltingly cute hedgehog.

Perry created the Instagram account @2slicesoftoast to document the breakfast creativity for his daughters, vowing to create the sculptures every day for one year.

Currently he's sitting at post 322 – but we doubt this wills top at 365, as we're sure his 13,000 followers might have something to say about it.

It's a beautiful and creative way to turn his daughter's allergies from a negative into a positive, inspiring parents everywhere, because putting a good spin on allergies can be a hard thing.

“My son has a peanut allergy and I try to avoid him ever feeling left out or disappointed when he can’t eat the cake or lollies on special occasions," says 9Honey and 9Mums contributor and parenting expert, Melinda Ayre. "I will often let him choose a special ‘safe’ treat to take along to a party," she adds acknowledging that finding the positive spin can be tricky. "We might take a coloured jelly or choose a special nut-free cupcake from a bakery on the way.”

For Perry the inspiration for his sculptures can come from just about anywhere, and has so far included both the enormous and eye catching icons of the world (think the London Eye) right through to mundane, everyday items (a toaster made of toast, complete with bread slices jutting out the top).

He says that some mornings he doesn't even know what he will make until the toast has popped out of the toaster. But more often than not ideas come from the family.And yes, he only ever works with two slices of toast… no extras for the added bits.